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Carving Up a Continent: State Boundaries in the American West / Derek Everett
The United States spent much of the nineteenth century dividing the West into states by drawing lines through landscapes and cultures to create a framework of control. The Colorado-New Mexico boundary, among many others, reflects the consequences of seemingly simple invisible boundaries to shape communities and people yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Join Dr. Derek Everett to explore how state boundaries emerged, and what impact they continue to have from the San Luis Valley to the Pacific coast and the Mississippi valley.
Everett is author of Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands and an instructor at Colorado State University and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
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